A prison inmate ruined physically and mentally by substance abuse says drugs are 'rife' in North Sea Camp near Boston.

Magistrates heard that Lee Daniel McNeil, 32, of Wistow Court in Nottingham, was found with a small amount of an unspecified psychoactive substance that he had been smoking in his room in November last year.

He admitted possessing a psychoactive substance while in the open prison when he appeared before magistrates in Boston.

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She told the court McNeil had been ruined physically and mentally by drugs.

But she said that after he was returned at his own request to a closed prison to finish his sentence, he was able to get off drugs.

She told the court that following his release in May 2017, he had gone to work as a driver for the firm of solicitors who had represented him in court and who had commented on his hard work and honesty.

“He is an example of a rehabilitation success,” she told the court.

The magistrates said there could only be 'praise' for what he had done to turn his life around and gave him a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered him to pay £105 in costs and charges.